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M. Edward McNally

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http://sablecity.wordpress.com/

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Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Short Stories

Influences

Tolkien to Pynchon, and everything in between.

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March 2011

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Yikes, this page gave me an option to enter my "date of death." That's disheartening. Anyway, North Carolina born Irish/Mexican, grew up Midwestern along I 35 Northbound (KS, IA, MN), now in AZ among the scorpions and javelinas. Studied English Lit and Russian/East European History in school, and at the place where the two bumped together, I wrote some Musket & Magic Fantasy books. Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus. ...more

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M. Edward McNally's Blog

2014 Update

Good news! I’m out of the well!

Okay, technically I haven’t been trapped in a well. But astute observers may notice it has officially been one calendar year since my last post here. At that time, I was hoping to have the 6th book of the Norothian Cycle ready for release in 2014.

That’s when I fell in the well.

Metaphorically, I mean. The course of human events, life-the-universe-and-everything, so-fo

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M. Edward McNally’s books

Average rating: 3.75 · 1,850 ratings · 261 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Sable City (Norothian Cycle, #1) 3.66 avg rating — 533 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Indie Eclective: The Halloween Collection by M. Edward McNally (Goodreads Author), Indie Eclective, Heather Marie Adkins (Goodreads Author) 3.43 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death of a Kingdom (Norothian Cycle, #2) 4.15 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wind From Miilark (Norothian Cycle, #3) 4.02 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Devil Town (Norothian Cycle, #4) 4.14 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Channel War (Norothian Cycle, #5) 4.17 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eddie's Shorts - Volume 1 3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eddie's Shorts Vol. 2 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eddie's Shorts Vol. 4 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eddie's Shorts Vol. 3 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“[on the Irish] A race of poets and wordsmiths, my ass.”
― M. Edward McNally

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“Weak, small minded men torturing and murdering women in order to keep their own power.”
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“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
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“[on the Irish] A race of poets and wordsmiths, my ass.”
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“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
― Susan B. Anthony

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“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
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